Grantee Database
Kala Institute
Grant Year
2025-26
Grant Program
Individual Artist Fellowships-AO
Award Amount
$700,000.00
Project Description
With support from the California Arts Council, Kala Institute will plan and implement the Individual Artist Fellowship program (Region 3). The scope of work includes developing grant guidelines, managing a competitive application, putting together panels and review process, and selecting Fellows, providing direct grant payments through an online grants management system to selected artists and cultural practitioners. In addition, Kala Institute will provide outreach, marketing, and info sessions and technical assistance to applications both in person and online throughout region 3 (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara and Sonoma counties). Throughout the process, Kala will support for artists and culture bearers, engaging in outreach for geographic reach, convening fellows for networking and co-learning, and providing exhibition, performance and public program opportunities to raise visibility and highlight the work of Fellows.
Organization Summary
The heart of Kala’s mission is supporting artists and engaging the community. Kala’s artist residency program offers professional facilities to those working in and across printmaking and digital media, new media, public art, sculpture, installation, and performance. Kala’s artist residency program is known for the support it offers to artists, specialized resources spanning printmaking, photography, sculpture and media arts, points of contact with accessible staff, and the caliber of work artists are able to produce and share with the community while in residence. Kala’s artist residencies provide time, space, equipment, and a knowledgeable network of artists (175+ artists a year) to foster dialogue, risk-taking, creation of new work, and community building.
Kala’s exhibitions and gallery, free and open to the public Tuesday-Saturday, provide a platform for innovative presentations of contemporary art and a forum for artists and the public – sparking conversations across views and timely topics. This complex web of timely topics includes racial and social justice, displacement, the environment, community wellness, and more. Kala hosts community events, film screenings, artist talks, and performances in the galley too.
Kala fosters a fresh approach to experimentation, as artists investigate the interface of digital work, work made by hand, and everything in between. A spirit of exchange and education is nurtured through all Kala’s programs. Kala offers quality arts education to the general public and local youth through its on-site art classes – after school studio art, teen studio workshops, family and community art-making sessions, summer art programs, field trips, and a robust Artists-in-Schools program, established in 1991, providing artist-led instruction to students in neighboring East Bay public schools.
Providing multiple points of access to space and resources through artist residencies, exhibitions, and arts education is more important than ever as we fight for equitable engagement in the midst of these challenging times.
Organization
Kala Art Institute
Address
1060 HEINZ AVE
Kala Institute
BERKELEY
94710-2719
County
Alameda
Region
Bay Area – Other
Phone
(510) 841-7000
Congressional District
California's 13th congressional district
State Assembly District
District 14
State Senate District
District 7
